Here is my advice to everyone: Don't support the scum companies marking cards up nearly 100% from MSRP to play the market.

Vote with your wallet folks, make these businesses fail.

Yeah, you should buy your cards from companies that sell GPUs below market value... oh wait, there aren't any of those!

Retail stores get stuck with tons of stuff nobody wants to buy, and many have to shut the doors because of lagging sales. And you're gonna call them scum because they're selling GPUs at market value?? Really?

Yeah, you should buy your cards from companies that sell GPUs below market value... oh wait, there aren't any of those!

Retail stores get stuck with tons of stuff nobody wants to buy, and many have to shut the doors because of lagging sales. And you're gonna call them scum because they're selling GPUs at market value?? Really?

It's called free market.

They are selling cards for double MSRP. The market can respond by resisting these dirtbag tactics.

r1lee - one post, yes, but did you notice his account was created in 2002? He waited 16 years before making his first post on RFD - I can only imagine that he feels strongly about them. (Either that, or he deleted his posts.)

They are selling cards for double MSRP. The market can respond by resisting these dirtbag tactics.

It's not dirtbag tactics. It's supply and demand. Are you a dirtbag if you sell your house for double what you paid for it two years ago?? Or are you gonna be a nice and virtuous home owner and eschew the market value by listing at what you think is a "fair" markup?

It's not dirtbag tactics. It's supply and demand. Are you a dirtbag if you sell your house for double what you paid for it two years ago?? Or are you gonna be a nice and virtuous home owner and eschew the market value by listing at what you think is a "fair" markup?

The reason cards stopped going out of stock instantly is because mining became less profitable and buyers were scared off. There's no moral reason people aren't buying them.

Except the technology industry has a long and notorious history of creating artificial scarcity and colluding to raise prices on customers.

Comparisons to RE are ridiculous because the value to an actual home rarely goes up, the land underneath it does. Land is a finite resource that has special value for factors like being near transit, size, location etc. Video cards can be manufactured in the tens of thousands over a weekend in China.

Except the technology industry has a long and notorious history of creating artificial scarcity and colluding to raise prices on customers.

Comparisons to RE are ridiculous because the value to an actual home rarely goes up, the land underneath it does. Land is a finite resource that has special value for factors like being near transit, size, location etc. Video cards can be manufactured in the tens of thousands over a weekend in China.

NewEgg and Canada computers didn't create artificial scarcity, and they're not colluding. They're selling GPUs at the market value. Just as every successful business in every market does. And you call them scumbags for this, why? Because you're upset you can't afford the card you want??